{"id":18721,"date":"2022-12-07T06:10:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T06:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/12\/07\/steve-barclay-and-wes-streeting-on-nhs-strike-talks\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T06:10:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T06:10:06","slug":"steve-barclay-and-wes-streeting-on-nhs-strike-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=18721","title":{"rendered":"Steve Barclay and Wes Streeting on NHS strike talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Wes Streeting has asked the health secretary why he was not negotiating with NHS staff over a strike due later this month, and accused him of using nurses as a scapegoat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Steve Barclay told the shadow heath secretary said his door was &#8220;open&#8221; and he was not setting preconditions to talks, adding Labour was not supporting a 19% pay rise. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The three main ambulance unions &#8211; Unison, GMB and Unite &#8211; are due to strike in England and Wales over pay on 21 and 28 December, affecting non-life threatening calls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/uk-63871368\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Live: Thousands of ambulance workers to strike before Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-63873460?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Wes Streeting has asked the health secretary why he was not negotiating with NHS staff over a strike due later this month, and accused him of using nurses as &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}